Tag: Greece

Mention “food” and “Disney World” in the same sentence, and most people conjure up images of greasy turkey legs and insipid, mouse-eared ice cream treats. For years, the Most Magical Place on Earth had a well-earned reputation for little more than junk food. The past 20 years have seen...

How do you tell the difference between a block of beloved Italian parmesan and a copycat? Just look for the one with a chip in it. Producers fed up with phony products flooding the market have begun embedding edible microchips into their cheese wheels. It’s a bid to help...

When is a cheese not what it seems? When it’s a fake parmesan. Italy’s renowned parmigiano reggiano, favoured for finishing off bowls of pasta and rocket salads, is one of the most counterfeited cheeses in the world. Now its manufacturers have found a new way to hit back against...

I received an interesting request via our WBSM app chat, which allows the listener to write the host in real time. “Hi Phil, the wife wants to know the best store brand feta to buy and where,” Dennis from New Bedford wrote in. The first thing I need to...

In fact, cheese has been an integral part of French history for two millennia. As early as the 1st century BCE, the historian Pliny the Elder enthused about the cheeses brought back from France by occupying Roman legions. Charlemagne was fond of Roquefort; Louis XVI, fleeing for his life,...

Unknown to many people, the first mention of the famous Feta cheese is seemingly as old as Homer’s “Odyssey”. The famous sheep milk cheese, a beloved part of Greek salad and cheese pies, is perhaps Greece’s most famous dairy product and appears to have very historical roots. Odyssey, which...

Issued on: 28/11/2022 – 07:30 Náxos (Greece) (AFP) – On his bougainvillaea-covered farm on the Greek island of Naxos, Yannis Karganis milks his sheep, wondering anxiously how he will cope with soaring costs and keep his cheesemaking business afloat. After the war in Ukraine sparked an inflationary spiral in...

Cyprus’ famed “white gold” halloumi cheese that doesn’t melt when grilled, making it so popular, can be sold outside the country by factories that still haven’t been certified for its production. That was reported by Philenews which noted the cheese as the EU’s Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) to...